Veteran actor Sulabha Deshpande passes away

June 04, 2016 21:19

Veteran theatre and film actor Sulabha Deshpande, who had acted in numerous Marathi and Hindi films, died at her Mumbai residence today after a prolonged illness, family sources said.

She was 79. Apart from acting in the plays written by acclaimed playwrights such as Vijay Tendulkar, Deshpande featured in several Marathi and Hindi films and TV serials.

In Hindi, the noteworthy films in which she appeared included Bhumika (1977), Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978) and Gaman (1978).

In recent years, she had appeared in Gauri Shinde-directed English-Vinglish.

She was associated with Rangayan, a pioneering Marathi experimental theatre group, along with Tendulkar, Vijaya Mehta, and Satyadev Dubey.

In 1971 she co-founded the theatre group Awishkar with her husband Arvind Deshpande (who died in 1987).

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